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That issue is beaten to death around Boston. Don't take this personally but I think it's a silly concern. Just about every owner in baseball owns multiple businesses. I think it would be a big deal if they were asking Cherington to be the GM of both teams but with the amount of delegating that Henry is presumably doing I doubt it's an issue.

That issue is beaten to death around Boston. Don't take this personally but I think it's a silly concern. Just about every owner in baseball owns multiple businesses. I think it would be a big deal if they were asking Cherington to be the GM of both teams but with the amount of delegating that Henry is presumably doing I doubt it's an issue

Is it natural for me to ponder, "why did this guy buy a soccer team in Liverpool when he already owned the Red Sox?" Seems like a lot for a guy to have on the old plate.

Hell, that's nothing. Stan Kroenke owns Arsenal, the Colorado Avalanche, the Denver Nuggets, the St. Louis Rams, and the Colorado Rapids. All he lacks is a baseball team, and IIRC there was talk that he was trying to buy the Dodgers before the Magic Johnson group got them.

That issue is beaten to death around Boston. Don't take this personally but I think it's a silly concern. Just about every owner in baseball owns multiple businesses. I think it would be a big deal if they were asking Cherington to be the GM of both teams but with the amount of delegating that Henry is presumably doing I doubt it's an issue.

A good example of the opposite being the case would be the Glazers. Right at the time that they took on a ton of debt to finance the purchase of Manchester United the Buccaneers went from being regularly one of the highest-spending teams in the league to one of the lowest.

The English just love (and by that I mean hate) American owners. The Glazers are despised by Manchester United fans."

The English, like any fans, unsurprisingly hate owners, regardless of nationality, that load debt onto a team to buy it, that borrow huge amounts to buy it, then transfer that debt onto the team. Other than that, IME, they don't really care, American or not.

Randy Lerner, who owns the Cleveland Browns, also owns Aston Villa, a team beloved by presumably someone although I've never encountered a Villa fan.

Lerner's quite the Anglophile, and as I understand it the perception in Cleveland is that he cares more about Villa than the Browns. In any case, he sold the Browns last month, so now he has another $1 billion to buy soccer players.

The English just love (and by that I mean hate) American owners. The Glazers are despised by Manchester United fans.

On the other hand, Ellis Short has been pretty great for Sunderland. Also, Lerner has invested in Villa it's just that the people he trusted to spend his cash completely screwed it up. He's not unpopular because he's milking the club like the Glazers or Hicks, but because they haven't had results.